Dental AI claims to improve detection accuracy by 30%—and it does—but how does that work?

Are dentists really that
bad at analyzing X-rays?

Fortunately, the answer is “no.” Dentists are even better at analyzing X-rays than AI.

So where does that 30% improvement in detection accuracy come from?

Detection Accuracy: 256 Shades of Gray

Some pathologies are actually hard to see. A black and white X-ray is rendered in only 256 shades of gray. That’s not many steps between pure black and pure white, and most computer monitors can’t even display pure black or white. That compresses the range of shades even more. It takes a keen eye to pick out subtle details.

Detection Accuracy: The Time Factor

If you’re an experienced dental professional, you know what to look for and you’ll detect many hard-to-see pathologies. But if you have five patients in five treatment rooms and five minutes to spend with each of them, it becomes more challenging to find those subtle problems. The problem isn’t with your abilities. The problem is with how much time you have to apply them.

Detection Accuracy: The Fire Alarm Factor

A patient comes in complaining of severe pain. A scan reveals the serious problem and that’s what gets your focus. But that five-alarm fire on the upper left can easily draw your attention away from a barely-noticeable glowing ember on the lower right that could turn into a bigger problem …  unless you catch it today.

The best dental AI improves detection accuracy by analyzing the shades of gray and alerting you to possible problems. It quickly looks at every tooth in every scan, and recognizes a range of pathologies that can be easy to miss. It’s lightning fast and it never gets distracted.

Imagine you had a second dentist on your team who laser-focused their superhero vision on every single X-ray. When you get to the treatment room to spend five minutes with your patient, those scans have “digital Post-it™ notes” on them directing you to look here and here and here.

That’s where your experience and expertise come in.

That’s where the 30% improvement in detection accuracy comes from.

And that’s how smart dentists use AI to improve patient outcomes fast.

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